The 11 requests pale in comparison to the 679 made by the US government to Twitter, representing around 80 per cent of the total of 849 which Twitter said was more than the overall total for 2011.

User information requests per country (Picture: Twitter)

Twitter, publishing its transparency report ahead of US Independence Day on July 4, said it wanted to emulate Google by shedding light on government requests for user information, government requests to withhold content and takedown notices from copyright holders.